Question

I need to send a http request without encoding (I have to consume a stupid supplier API that breaks if you encode your urls)

so currently I have

    string address = "https://www.eco-bb.bt.com/bbxml33/batchstatus.asp?b_customerId=[O/M12346800]&batchid=[" + batchID + "]";
    HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(address);

Which produces

POST
https://www.eco-bb.bt.com/bbxml33/Upload.asp?b_customerId=%5BO/M12346800%5D

And I want it to produce

POST
https://www.eco-bb.bt.com/bbxml33/Upload.asp?b_customerId=%5BO/M12346800%5D

I’m a little stumped. Any suggestions on how to proceed?

Answer 1

If you’re running .NET 4 or later you can add the following config

<configuration>
  <uri>
    <schemeSettings>
      <add name="http" genericUriParserOptions="DontUnescapePathDotsAndSlashes"/>
    </schemeSettings>
  </uri>
</configuration>